Aristarchus of Samos Quote

The diameter of the circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is less than the diameter of the moon, but has to it a ratio greater than that which 89 has to 90.

Proposition 12

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)


The diameter of the circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is less than the diameter of the moon, but has to it a ratio...

The diameter of the circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is less than the diameter of the moon, but has to it a ratio...

The diameter of the circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is less than the diameter of the moon, but has to it a ratio...

The diameter of the circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is less than the diameter of the moon, but has to it a ratio...